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EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) … not a 'real national association'. A 1956…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection … between 1899 and 1902 – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are back in the…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… Africa's Death Squad HQ. Horror unfolded in the forms of Almond Nofomela and Dirk Coetzee and for the first time I … Marks Place, later we walked the chaotic…
EventNUSAS disbands
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950…
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… Former Minister of Education and professor of political science at the Rand Afrikaans University, … van der Merwe (52), who left the cabinet at the request…
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
… cargo ship Santo Alberto was wrecked on the coast of Pondoland, south-west of the mouth of the Umtata River. Through admirable leadership of the … Potgieter,…
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The …
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… my good friends from the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time out of your very busy schedules to come and listen to me this … come to…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… 2015, Chumani Maxwele threw human excrements at a statue of Cecil John Rhodes that was situated on the campus of the University of Cape Town, on Rugby Road…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… was born on 14 August 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, Gauteng (then Transvaal).[i] van Onselen has become one of the most widely respected South…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… the Afrikaner nationalist majority, embarked on a series of campaigns to remove Coloured people from the common voters rolls. On 14 May 1951, members of the…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… as a system was obsessed with separating the citizens of South Africa on a racial basis. This was done to foster … and to entrench the minority White regime…
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… political career by winning the Provincial Council seat of Walmer, Port Elizabeth, for the Progressive Federal Party … A year later she became involved in…
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… money had been misused. He denied that he was informed of the secret funding of The Citizen and rejected as contemptible Dr. Eschel … statement from his…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… for plans for Black majority rule in the country. Out of the total White population of 99,000, fifty-two thousand of them voted yes on the Turnhalle draft…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She grieved for 10 minuites then fled … Freedom Party support bases. In…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… After a three day meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC), the meeting adopted a new strategic policy, which…
EventHarms releases his report
… its report on its investigations in the activities of South African Defence Force Army and South African Police … headed the commission. Ironically enough,…
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… The Pope arrives in Lesotho Pope John Paul , leader of the Catholic Church arrives in Lesotho amidst a hijacking … revealed Lesotho's dependence on South…
EventWorld Aids Day
… Following the January 1988 meeting of Health Ministers in London, a decision was taken that 1 … that, unlike other pandemics like malaria, the spread of…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… The meetings, expected to continue until the end of the week, also concerned improving cooperation between the … reports that people with al-Qaeda links were…
EventSouth Africa joins the OAU
… South Africa was officially admitted as 53rd member of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at a summit, held in Tunis, Tunisia. … after membership was…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… against his mother who screams Africa screams the smell of freedom and heather in the locations of the heart under siege The child raises his fists against…
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… Ababa, derailed when it reached a curve 125 miles east of the capital. . It was suspected that the train engineer … injured in the accident. The accident…
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
… the land routes. Vasco da Gama, sent by Manuel I of Portugal, was the first to reached India in 1498 sailing … established a refreshment station in 1652 at…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… The Diggers’ Memorial is one of the monuments that constitute part of this heritage, contributing to it in an important way. It … and power is seen as they…
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… empowered to detain, without warrant and for the purposes of interrogation, anyone suspected of a political crime. They could be legally held in solitary … a…
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
… rains immersed the whole town in water, only the roofs of the houses were left visible. At least 100 residents lost their lives and the bodies of 72 people…